Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These Days? Acheson's speech had its points of wisdom, but it also contained plenty of evidence that he still clings to a policy of drift in Asia, still cherishes hopes of conciliating Russia. In labeling Russia the main "obstacle to peace," he used remarkably kid-gloved language, e.g.: "The use by Soviet leaders of the international Communist movement . . . has been a great source of trouble in the world." Acheson also announced that the U.S. would ask the Assembly to decide the vital issue of Formosa, and that all "concerned and interested parties" should be invited to have their...
...toward the recognized government of Nationalist China has been made apparent in Taipei. I can also report that no one in Taipei is aware of any substantial "Question of Formosa," except the problem created and sustained by our Government's apparent determination to eliminate the Chinese Nationalists from Asia...
Reischauer agreed that Marshall Commanded world-wide respect, but tended to minimize the importance in Asia of Marshall's personal contacts with the Chinese Communists. He said that "the Communist bible of beliefs is not affected by personalities...
Discussing the nation's over-all foreign policy in Asia, Reischauer declared, "Our biggest mistake in Asia is our failure to spread out ideology." He deplored the policy of a Congress which now is spending billions of dollars on arms in Korea but which "refused to spend even a million to train the South Koreans in the art of democratic government...
Reischauer stressed that Russia had won "cheap success" in Asia by the primary use of propaganda and that the United States might profit by this lesson. Economic and military aid should be employed in that order after ideological training, said 'Reischauer...